ReviewDrugs2009
Viral myocarditis: diagnosis, aetiology and management.
Review in Drugs, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Astragaloside IV Exerts Cardioprotection in Animal Models of Viral Myocarditis: A Preclinical Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2019Pooled it
- Changes of myocardial gene expression and protein composition in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy after immunoadsorption with subsequent immunoglobulin substitution.Basic research in cardiology · 2016Trial
- Association of inflammatory index with the severity of disease in patients with acute myocarditis: A retrospective observational study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Observational
- Neutralization of interleukin-38 exacerbates coxsackievirus B3-induced acute myocarditis in mice.Virology journal · 2021Article
- Absent MicroRNAs in Different Tissues of Patients with Acquired Cardiomyopathy.Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2016Article
- Interleukin-27 ameliorates coxsackievirus-B3-induced viral myocarditis by inhibiting Th17 cells.Virology journal · 2015Article
- Acute myocarditis mimicking ST-elevation myocardial infarction: A case report and review of the literature.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2015Article
- Cardiac effects of in-utero exposure to antiretroviral therapy in HIV-uninfected children born to HIV-infected mothers.AIDS (London, England) · 2015Article
- Cardiac biomarkers in HIV-exposed uninfected children.AIDS (London, England) · 2013Article
- Myocardial gene expression profiles and cardiodepressant autoantibodies predict response of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy to immunoadsorption therapy.European heart journal · 2013Article
- Mesenchymal stem cells improve murine acute coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis.European heart journal · 2011Article
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the cardiac muscle caused by myocardial infiltration of immunocompetent cells following any kind of cardiac injury. Classic myocarditis mainly occurs as a result of the host's immune response against organisms that cause common infectious illnesses, as a manifestation of hypersensitivity or as a toxic reaction to drug therapy. Chronic inflammatory events may survive successful clearance of initial cardiotoxic agents, be triggered or amplified by autoimmunological processes, or develop in the context of systemic diseases. If the underlying infectious or immune-mediated causes of the disease are carefully defined by clinical and biopsy-based tools, specific immunosuppressive and antiviral treatment options may improve the prognosis of patients with acute and chronic disease.
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